A couple months ago, Valerie Webb (from the band Venomentality) contacted us (The Velmas) with an idea. She’s putting together a portfolio for college (she’s only 16!) next year, and in general is trying new things and experimenting with her music. She had this song called “All While Laughing” that she had recorded a quick [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Recording'
Valerie Webb’s new song
September 1, 2008
First drum tracks done!
August 6, 2008
For those keeping track (i.e. me), I’ve now rehearsed with four drummers for my new CD. The newest addition is the multi-talented Melanie Krahmer from Sirsy. She’s helping me out with drums on the song “Florida”. You might recall that as one of the tracks on my second acoustic demo CD “Wrote Myself“. Now I’m [...]
Self-Duet: “Saw Red”
July 31, 2008
I played a duet last night with my favorite musician: me!
I’ve been listening to a lot of Sublime lately, and so decided to learn this song. Then I thought this would be a good tune to try this “self-accompanying” video idea out on (that I’ve been meaning to do for some [...]
“Blue Skies Black” posted on myspace
July 24, 2008
so, i decided to lay it all out there and show people what i’ve been talking about all this time. i’ve uploaded to myspace one of the new songs that will be on my upcoming solo cd. it’s called “blue skies black”.
this is just the demo that i recorded in my home bedroom studio, all [...]
new song
June 7, 2008
i wrote a song on the BNL/Guster cruise in 2006. i was influenced by some of the new sounds i’d heard on the ship. i wasn’t much of a BNL fan before that cruise (we went mostly for guster, and the caribbean, and they won me over), so i heard a lot of [...]
drummers, garageband, and wordpress
June 3, 2008
random thoughts:
i’ve got 7 drummers lined up now to play on 11 songs i plan to record for my new side project/solo album. can’t wait to start tracking. need to come up with a name for that “band” as well as the album itself.
after using pro tools for years, and then trying to [...]
Pro Tools Overdubs Video
May 17, 2008
I made my first educational video the other day. My friend Mike recently got Pro Tools and had a question about making overdubs sound smoother. So rather than typing out a huge email, I just broke out the video camera. After doing that, it seemed like it was something other people might [...]
Caught up on that song
May 6, 2008
I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song “So Long”. I do quite like this song. So, now I’m back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ideas recorded. Cool.
The song was inspired by an awful article I read [...]
If it doesn’t exist in 3 places, it might as well not exist at all
May 1, 2008
So I have a ton of new songs I’ve been working on, recording demos as inspiration strikes and when I have free time. Last night I thought of a vocal harmony for one of them (”so long” is the title). So I brought up the Pro Tools session to record it. To my horror, the [...]